Month: September 2016

A program to encourage student-loan borrowers to go into public service may come with a hefty price tag. If you take out a federal student loan, you may qualify for public service loan forgiveness. (If you borrow...VIEW MORE

You’re throwing as much money as you can scrape together at your student loans, sending in a few extra dollars on top of the automatic withdrawals to pay down the debt a little faster. But a month...VIEW MORE

OK, so you’ve graduated college, gotten a decent job and would absolutely love to buy a house. You might even be crashing open houses in the neighborhoods on your buy list, binging on pretzels and chatting with...VIEW MORE

In August 2012, Bobby Hoyt decided to get serious about putting money toward his $40,000 student loan debt. Eighteen months later, the high-school band director was completely debt-free. In order to fast track his debt repayment plan,...VIEW MORE

Thousands of students who took out private loans to attend Ashford University and the University of the Rockies, a pair of for-profit colleges run by Bridgepoint Education, will have their debt forgiven and payments refunded, the Consumer...VIEW MORE

While many college students are returning to campus, tens of thousands of ITT ITT +1.21% Educational Services students found out this month that their school is closing its doors. In a press release last week, the for-profit...VIEW MORE

For-profit college chain Bridgepoint Education must refund and forgive $23.5 million in private loans made to students for misrepresenting the amount of their monthly installment payments. The federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said Monday that the San...VIEW MORE

For many voters, one of the biggest concerns is how much money they have in their bank accounts. And for many millennial voters, that total is inextricably tied up with student debt. The issue of affordable education...VIEW MORE

Young voters, without a doubt, have many issues that they care about. But for those living solely on Cup Noodles two weeks out of the year because their college loan payments make it difficult to stock up...VIEW MORE

The majority of college students will take out student loans to finance their education, and the average student loan borrower will leave school with over $28,000 in debt. Millions of people take out unsubsidized federal loans or...VIEW MORE

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June 15, 2017

For most borrowers, federal student loans don’t go away until you pay them off. But in rare cases, the government will discharge the remaining balance of your student loans. In fact, there are seven options for student...VIEW MORE

June 14, 2017

Americans now hold more student loan debt than ever before, and many workers must pay off loans before they can start thinking about their financial future. Last week, Memphis announced the launch of a Student Loan Reduction...VIEW MORE

June 08, 2017

The Education Department said Tuesday that the hundreds of thousands of doctors, lawyers, teachers and social workers on track for a form of student loan forgiveness will not be affected by President Trump’s proposal to get rid...VIEW MORE

June 07, 2017

Curry Oglesby knows the challenges firsthand of trying to pay down her debt and also plan for her future. “It’s not like I have savings right now,” she said. The 30-year-old graduated from Howard University in 2009...VIEW MORE